Here it is, the whole album in a single playlist. Preview. Monks discography and songs: Music profile for Monks, formed 1965. Listen on Apple Music. The Monks' Black Monk Time resembles what might have happened if the Monkees had gone to Vietnam, had their "ee" shot off, and decided that this peace and love thing was an enormous crock of shit. The story of the Monks is one of those rock & roll tales that seems too good to be true -- five Americans soldiers stationed in Germany form a rock band to blow off steam, and after starting out playing solid but ordinary R&B-influenced beat music, their songs evolve into something that bear practically no relation to anything happening in pop in 1966. The album's subversive style and lyrical content was radical for its time and today is considered an important landmark in the development of punk rock. By 1967, the Monks were no more, and the album was lost to time. Black Monk Time The Monks Rock 1965; Listen on Apple Music. Albums include Black Monk Time, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968, and Complication / Oh, How to Do Now . He took psychadelic drugs 3-5 times a week, and had a big collection of music, but mostly he just listend to experimental stuff. In 2016 i went to Brno in the Czech Republic on an excange program, there I had a rooomate who did an absurd amount of drugs. Black Monk Time is the debut studio album by Germany-based American rock band The Monks. It was released in March 1966 through Polydor Records and was the only album released during the band's original incarnation.

I'm always telling people about this band, so I thought I'd make a convenient playlist of it all. Genres: Garage Rock, Proto-Punk, Psychedelic Pop.